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Helen Oyeyemi – brytyjska pisarka pochodzenia nigeryjskiego.

✵ 10. Grudzień 1984
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Helen Oyeyemi: 12 cytatów0 Polubień

Helen Oyeyemi: Cytaty po angielsku

“It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.”

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Helen Oyeyemi

Źródło: Mr. Fox

“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”

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Helen Oyeyemi książka Boy, Snow, Bird

Źródło: Boy, Snow, Bird

“I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.”

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Helen Oyeyemi

Źródło: White is for Witching

“The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it’s ready and then your ghost pours the resurrection potion out of the moka pot.”

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Helen Oyeyemi książka Boy, Snow, Bird

Źródło: Boy, Snow, Bird

“Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.”

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Helen Oyeyemi

Źródło: Mr. Fox

“I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.”

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Helen Oyeyemi

Źródło: Mr. Fox

“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”

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Helen Oyeyemi

Źródło: What is Not Yours is Not Yours

“… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.”

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Helen Oyeyemi

Źródło: Mr. Fox

“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.”

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Helen Oyeyemi książka Boy, Snow, Bird

Źródło: Boy, Snow, Bird

“You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.”

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Helen Oyeyemi książka Boy, Snow, Bird

Źródło: Boy, Snow, Bird

“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.”

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Helen Oyeyemi

Źródło: Mr. Fox

“If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin.”

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Helen Oyeyemi książka The Opposite House

Źródło: The Opposite House

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